PAKISTAN: Suspected US missile strikes kill 3 in Pakistan

By ISHTIAQ MASHUD
The Associated Press

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Two suspected U.S. missile strikes close to the border with Afghanistan killed three people Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

NATO launches airstrike near Pakistan-Afghan border

By Augustine Anthony
Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – NATO launched an airstrike near the Afghan border with Pakistan on Friday, but there was no intrusion into Pakistani territory, a Pakistani military spokesman said, contradicting accounts by intelligence officials in the region.

Explosion Kills 7 Russians in South Ossetia

By ELLEN BARRY
The New York Times

MOSCOW — An explosion in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali on Friday killed nine Russian peacekeepers and wounded three others, raising tensions in the separatist enclave days before a scheduled pullback of Russian troops from Georgian territory.

AFGHANISTAN: US says Afghan militants kill a civilian in attack

by The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. military says a militant attack on their patrol in eastern Afghanistan killed an Afghan civilian and wounded four others.

SOMALIA: At least 80 killed in Somalia fighting: UN

by AFP

GENEVA (AFP) — At least 80 civilians were killed and more than 100 others injured in violence in the Somalian capital Mogadishu in the last week of September, the United Nations said on Friday.

Some 110 people have been admitted to two main hospitals in Mogadishu, but “the number of those wounded is suspected to be higher,” said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).